{"id":96315,"date":"2017-04-01T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T23:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96315"},"modified":"2017-04-01T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T23:05:19","slug":"wild-giant-panda-spotted-in-sw-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/01\/wild-giant-panda-spotted-in-sw-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild giant panda spotted in SW China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_96316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96316\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Capture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96316\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Capture-2.png\" alt=\"&quot;The panda was drinking water from a river in Yangkai village. I saw it during a patrol with villagers around 9 a.m.,&quot; said Liu Chang, Party chief of Dachuan town in Lushan County, Ya'an City. (Photo: Mulligan Stu\/ Flickr)\" width=\"557\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Capture-2.png 557w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Capture-2-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The panda was drinking water from a river in Yangkai village. I saw it during a patrol with villagers around 9 a.m.,&#8221; said Liu Chang, Party chief of Dachuan town in Lushan County, Ya&#8217;an City. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mulliganstu\">Mulligan Stu\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CHENGDU\u2013A wild giant panda was spotted in a village in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The panda was drinking water from a river in Yangkai village. I saw it during a patrol with villagers around 9 a.m.,&#8221; said Liu Chang, Party chief of Dachuan town in Lushan County, Ya&#8217;an City.<\/p>\n<p>They quickly took some photos before the panda ran off and disappeared into the forest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The panda looked to be in a very good state,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have come across wild giant pandas at least 18 times since 2015 in eight counties in Ya&#8217;an, according to incomplete statistics from local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Sichuan was home to 1,387 wild giant pandas as of the end of 2013, accounting for almost 75 percent of the country&#8217;s total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENGDU\u2013A wild giant panda was spotted in a village in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province Friday morning. &#8220;The panda was drinking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":96316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17308],"class_list":["post-96315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","tag-giant-panda","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}